Quotes About Patriotism

Reagan called on Americans to unify not around blood and soil but around the Constitution: "As long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

I love my country but hate the government and see no one, no one who can lead us.

I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.

She misses the surety of Soviet patriotism that she grew up with,

It all comes down to fear and greed. The easiest way to make that respectable is to call it nationalism, as you can't fault a man for loving his country.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

There are very few music projects like 'Border,' that you get to work on in your lifetime.

Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.

Promoting American manufacturing should not be a political issue.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

Are they happy with our God? Are they happy with our prophet? Are they happy with our leader? Never. I don't care about rest of the world. I care about my country.

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.

I made it to protect the motherland.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

Protecting our democracy shouldn't be a partisan issue.

We are very clear that we will go to any lengths for the sake of protecting our national pride.

It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.

In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or expression. In India, by contrast, we routinely get hysterical if the flag is ever taken out of the boundaries of officialdom.